Source: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Date: 2007-08-06
Jurisdiction: United States
Docket: No. 07-3029
Citation: 230 F. App'x 237
Opinion
OPINION PER CURIAM. Pro se petitioner Tyrone Staples, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to promptly reach a decision on his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Staples filed his § 2241 petition with the district court on December 19, 2006. On July 9, 2007, this petition for writ of mandamus was docketed (Staples dated the petition June 20, 2007). On July 6, 2007, the district court entered an order denying Staples’ § 2241 petition.
Because Staples has received the relief he sought in filing his mandamus petition — a ruling on his § 2241 petition — we will deny his mandamus petition as moot. . In a clerk's order, Staples was granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis, and asked to provide a response explaining why his mandamus petition was not moot in light of the district court’s order. Staples has filed no such response. . Staples filed a notice of appeal on July 16, 2007.